Materials Chemistry Frontiers editorial board members

Ben Zhong Tang, Editor-in-chief

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Ben Zhong Tang is Stephen K C Cheong Professor of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received BS and PhD degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University, respectively, and conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined the Department of Chemistry at HKUST in 1994. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He has been listed by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher in two disciplines: Chemistry and Materials Science. He received a Natural Science Award from the Chinese Government and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Croucher Foundation in 2007.

His research interests include materials science, polymer chemistry and biomedical engineering.

Shu Seki, Associate Editor

Kyoto University, Japan

Shu Seki graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1993, and received his PhD degree in 2001 from Osaka University. He joined Argonne National Laboratory, USA in 1993, and Delft University of Technology in 2001. He was appointed as Professor of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University in 2009. He was appointed as Professor of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 2015. His research is primarily focused on the physical chemistry of condensed matters, functional organic materials, and nanomaterials.

Natalia Shustova, Associate editor

University of South Carolina, USA

Natalia Shustova received her MS degree in Materials Science in 2004 from Moscow State University (MSU), Russia, and two PhD degrees, the first in Physical Chemistry in 2005 from MSU and the second in Inorganic Chemistry in 2010 from Colorado State University. She then did postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2013 she joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, MIT Infinite Kilometer Postdoctoral Award, an MIT/Bruker Symposium Award, a German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Graduate Research Scholarship, an Electrochemical Society Herbert H. Uhlig Summer Fellowship, and a Humboldt University (Berlin) L. Euler Student Fellowship.

Her current research interests are graphitic hybrid materials for sustainable energy conversion, sensors, switches, and artificial biomimetic systems.

Dan Wang, Associate editor

Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, China

Dan Wang graduated from Jilin University in 1994. He entered a master's degree program at his alma mater in the same year. He obtained his PhD from Yamanashi University in Japan in 2001. He was awarded by Hundred Talent Program of the CAS, and served as professor of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS in February 2004. And he earned the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2013. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and he sits on advisory boards for several international journals, such as Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Science, Advanced Materials Interface.

In recent years, he mainly focused on the design and controllable synthesis of functional inorganic materials with porous or hollow structures, and their applications in solar cells, Li-ion batteries and photocatalyst and gas sensors.

Zhen Li

Wuhan University, China

Zhen Li received his BSc and PhD degrees from Wuhan University (WHU) in China in 1997 and 2002, respectively, under the supervision of Professor Jingui Qin. In 2003-2004, he worked in the Hongkong University of Science and Technology as Research Associate in the group of Professor Ben Zhong Tang. In 2010, he worked in Georgia Institute of Technology in the group of Professor Seth Marder. He is currently a Full Professor at Wuhan University. He has published more than 230 papers, with an h-index of 50.

His research interests are in the development of organic molecules and polymers with new structure and new functions for organic electronics and photonics.

Paul Attfield

Edinburgh University, UK

Paul Attfield holds a Chair in Materials Science at Extreme Conditions at the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh. He is also the Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions. He received BA and PhD degrees from Oxford University, and he was a Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity at the University of Cambridge during 1991-2003. He received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Meldola and Corday-Morgan medals and Peter Day award, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2006 and of the Royal Society in 2014.

Early research contributions included pioneering resonant X-ray scattering experiments of cation and valence ordering, and studies of disorder effects in functional oxides. Current research is centred on electronic and magnetic materials; a recent highlight was the solution of the 70-year old ‘Verwey’ problem of charge order in magnetite - the original magnetic material.

Cassandra Fraser

University of Virginia, USA

Cassandra Fraser holds degrees from Kalamazoo College (BA 1984), Harvard Divinity School (MTS 1988) and The University of Chicago (PhD 1993, advisor: Brice Bosnich). She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow with Robert Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology (1993-5). At UVA, she was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and young professor awards from Dupont and 3M. Her teaching and mentoring accolades include the Cavaliers Distinguished Teaching Professorship and induction into the University Teaching Academy.

Fraser is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia, with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and the School of Architecture. She specializes in responsive materials for imaging, sensing and detection, specifically oxygen sensing biomaterials, mechanochromic luminescence materials and polymeric metal complexes.

Feihe Huang

Zhejiang University, China

Feihe Huang, born in 1973, obtained his PhD from Virginia Tech under the guidance of Professor Harry W Gibson in March 2005. Then he joined Professor Peter J Stang’s group at University of Utah as a postdoctor. He is currently Qiushi Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. Awards and honors he has received include: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chinese Chemical Society AkzoNobel Chemical Sciences Award and Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry. His publications have been cited 10724 times with an h-index of 56.

His current research interests are supramolecular polymers and pillararene supramolecular chemistry.

Ullrich Scherf

University of Wuppertal, Germany

Ullrich Scherf studied chemistry at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, and received his PhD degree in 1988 under supervision of Hans-Heinrich Hörhold. He spent one postdoctoral year at Institut für Tierphysiologie, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig in the group of Heinz Penzlin. In 1990 he joined the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (Klaus Müllen group) and obtained his habilitation from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in 1996. From 2000-2002 he worked as Associate Professor for Polymer Chemistry at Universität Potsdam, and since 2002 as Full Professor for Macromolecular Chemistry at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, both in Germany. He published ca. 650 papers in the field of functional polymer materials; his current H-index is 75 (WoS). In 1998 he received the Meyer-Struckmann Research Award, in 2011 the Odysseus Senior Award, FWO, Flanders.

Kazuo Tanaka

Kyoto University, Japan

Kazuo Tanaka received his PhD degree in 2004 from Kyoto University, and worked at Stanford University, Kyoto University, and RIKEN as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2007, he moved to the Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, and in 2015, he was promoted to an Associate Professor.

His research projects especially focus on design of new functional materials based on the heteroatom-containing polymers and organic−inorganic polymer hybrids for developing optoelectronic devices and bio-related materials.

Guillaume Wantz

University of Bordeaux, France

Guillaume Wantz obtained his Master degree from the Graduate School of Chemistry and Physics of Bordeaux (ENSCPB) in 2001 including a thesis work at Philips Research (Eindhoven, NL) on ink-jet printing. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bordeaux in 2004 working on Polymer Light Emitting Diodes. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Bordeaux working on Organic Field Effect Transistors with research stays at Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). He has been appointed as tenure Associate Professor at the Bordeaux Institute of Technology (Bordeaux INP) since 2006. His research interest is on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaic. He was invited-professor at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) in Spring 2012 and at Univ. of Massachusetts (Amherst, USA) in Fall 2014. He is the head of the CNRS network on Organic and Hybrid photovoltaic since 2015. He has been appointed at the “Institut Universitaire de France” (Paris) in 2016.

Huai Yang

Peking University, China

Dr. Huai Yang, tenured professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, China. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Jilin University, China in 1989 and 1992 respectively and his Degree of Doctor of Engineering in Kyushu University, Japan in 2002.

After working as a research fellow at Fukuoka Industry, Science and Technology Foundation, Japan and Japan Science and Technology Corporation, he joined in University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2003 and Peking University in 2010.

His research interests focus on liquid crystal materials, polymer chemistry and physics, Large-scale processing techniques of liquid crystalline films. He has published more than 260 papers and applied more than 130 Chinese invention patents, 60 of which were authorized.